To:THE S.E.C. PRESIDIUM

Written:Written on October 19, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Ipropose that the information and material on the
construction of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk District
Electric-Power Station (on Lake Rubskoye) should be urgently sent
to
me.[1]

1)Thestatute of the state district Ivanovo-Voznesensk
electric-power station or of the construction of this station.

2)Havethe projects for the construction of this station,
the basic data of the project: capacity, type, etc., been
worked out and approved?

3)Howthe project administration is organised; the
number of offices; their location; relations with each other and
the centre; to whom the construction is directly
subordinate here, at the centre; relations between the construction
bodies and the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Soviet
establishments; the name, office and record of the chief
persons responsible for construction; those here, at the centre,
directly responsible for the whole undertaking.

4)Thenumber of industrial and office workers
employed by the project administration and at the building site
on May 1 and October 1, including the staffs of all the central
and local construction offices (Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensk,
Teikovo, Lake Rubskoye); separately—how many:

Buildingand other workers:

b)unskilled;

Officeworkers;

Administrativeand technical personnel:

a)engineers,

b)other technicians.

5)Whattasks have been set before the project
administration, the building programme for 1921 and 1922; the
calendar programme and its execution over these two years.

6)Thestate of the building operations on October 1,1921;
what has actually been done since the start of construction.

7)Supplyof the building site for 1921 and 1922 with:
food,building and technical materials, and manpower, etc.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Thiswas written in connection with the report from N. N.
Kolotilov, Chairman of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Executive
Committee, about mismanagement and the fact that the
construction site was run by several offices with many employees
and few workers.

Thatsame day, N. P. Gorbunov, on Lenin’s assignment, had
a talk with N. N. Kolotilov.

OnOctober 20, 1921, the Administration for Electrotechnical
Structures sent in detailed replies to Lenin’s questions.